Ex-Prince Andrew apparently didn’t leave much of a mark on Carole Radziwill. The RHONY star called their 1999 dinner forgettable on the October 13 episode of The Real Housewives of New York City.
Carole Radziwill described her 1999 dinner with Andrew as largely forgettable
Carole also revisited the evening on Bravo’s The After Show Podcast for RHONY. She said it happened in London during the holidays, shortly after her husband, Anthony Radziwill, died. She was there alone, and after a mutual friend mentioned it to Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell called her out of the blue with an offer: dinner with some of her friends.
Carole said she tried to turn down the invitation, but Maxwell kept at it and she gave in. Within half an hour, maybe less, her “little Nokia phone” rang with a call from the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.
On the episode, Daisy Toye asked whether anything romantic came of it, and Carole said no. “We went to dinner, and that was it,” she said. She called the evening “kind of unmemorable.”
Carole said she knew Maxwell about 20 years ago and once considered her a friend, but they drifted apart. Maxwell is now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking of minors in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Carole described her as a “social climber” who went out of her way to meet people with money, power or a famous name. She said she never knew Epstein, though her name appears in related documents because of her link to Maxwell. Those ties also led to tough questions from Sai De Silva, as RealityTea reported.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is still dealing with the Epstein fallout. On October 8, High Court Justice Nicholas Hilliard quashed the search warrants police used to raid two of his residences. The raids came after his February 2026 arrest. The criminal investigation is reportedly still ongoing, and he is also said to be receiving
